Weekend Photo's from the South
Well it was a great weekend to get away with near on perfect conditions all long weekend. The only time that it looked nasty was halfway through the grand final, which was time spent locked away watching the Eagles have a magnificent win.
We spent quite a bit of time exploring spots over the weekend and getting a good idea of what fishes well in what wind and swell conditions. We managed to get a line wet a few times but didn't have much luck on the fish front, not that we tried excessively hard as the beer was cold and the scenery beautiful. There's something to be said about the south coast in spring when all the wild flowers come out and the drive into spots are rolling coast hills covering in a multitude of blues, yellows, pinks and greens that blend into a technicolour dream.
The best fishing we had over the weekend was throwing little hard bodies and skitter poppers into hordes of salmon trout and herring that were wanting to smash anything that went in the water. Sight fishing has to be one of my favourite methods of fishing and watching these little 30-40cm fish fight over who was going to smash the lure first was a sight to be seen. The little salmon trout are awesome jumpers too, providing so much fun on light gear it brings a tear to your eye having to call an end to the session.
Thats a brief summary of my weekend, plenty of cold ones, lots of exploring and spot checking and a few magical fishing moments. Hope you all had a great weekend as well.
Cheers,
Adam
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deefa
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I'd love to hear more about
I'd love to hear more about that lil Giant Herring....
I know they get few of em down south, but still not enough to be considered a "common capture", so tell us a bit about it Adam....
By the looks of the photo it seems u kept it?
Adam Gallash
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Herring
The giant herring was given to us by one of the local pro fishermen netting in the inlet. I just took a quick happy snap of it as I thought it was a pretty remarkable catch, even though I have seen one other caught in the inlet, it doesn't happen enough to be considered common. Tried to use it as bait, but it was way too mushy, so it became burley instead, better than it being thrown away by the pro I suppose.
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deefa
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ah ok
Did a similar thing with a big bone we found dumped in the bin at exxy recently, ran some fillets off for bait, so it at least wasn't wasted.
every now and then you do hear a murmur of one of these lil guys being nabbed in one of the sth coast inlets, your piccie just picqued my interest...